TWO CAPE STUDENTS ATTEND SPACE CAMP

Two Cape Girardeau students attended U.S. Space Camp this summer at the Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala.

Floyd Lockhart of Cape Girardeau Route 1 and Ryan Hendrickson, 1937 Weissinger, trained for a space adventure and earned college credit at the space camp.

Space Academy trainees in grades 10, 11 and 12 sample astronaut training by using astronaut training simulators. They spin and twist in multiaxis training simulators, an adaptation of early Mercury program training equipment.

Trainees also bounce high in the air while experiencing the Microgravity Training Chair, which is similar to equipment Apollo astronauts used in training for missions to the moon. They also spin and turn in the Five Degrees of Freedom Trainer, which was used by Gemini astronauts preparing for early spacewalks.

Space Academy trainees used the nation's only full-scale space shuttle exhibit. They also use a realistic mission control and space shuttle orbiter mockup for training that leads to a 24-hour simulated space mission.